More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
